Barcelona miracle, Dortmund advance in Champions League

One of the players he mustn’t have spoken to is the explanation for those three goals: Neymar played the most influential seven minutes of football in the history of the sport.

No side had ever recovered from such a deficit in Champions League history. But he then stroked home a spot-kick two minutes later to leave the game on a knife-edge.

An electric atmosphere gripped the Nou Camp before kick-off after Suarez and Luis Enrique had said they truly believed a comeback was on and the players caught the wave of optimism by swarming all over PSG from the first whistle.

“When you win 4-0, then lose 6-1, it’s very hard to accept”, said PSG president Nasser Al-Khelaifi, who has poured millions of dollars into the French club. “This is dedicated to them because we are not the Harlem Globe Trotters, this is football”. I simply have no words to explain how it felt.

“This is a insane, unique sport”.

As Pique spoke, video footage emerged of Shakira leading the celebrations in the Nou Camp stands, after Sergi Roberto’s wonderful last-gasp victor.

“I didn’t see a thing until the ball went in”. Nearly 90 minutes to go, just three more to get.

The Brazilian added of his side’s win: “It’s the best game that I’ve played in my life”. Barca also enter the record books by reaching the quarter-finals for a 10th straight season. But tonight they didn’t.

The historic triumph was sure to have been celebrated well into the night by followers of the Catalan giants, and Pique quipped that there might be some longer-term implications as well. In the end we have had a special night. We had nothing to lose today, we had lost everything in Paris.

PSG’s Uruguayan striker Edinson Cavani silenced the Camp Nou with a powerful right-foot drive just after the hour mark.

“That isn’t to say we will do it, but that we will be close”. Looking back, despite their goal, I feel that our performance was impressive, we risked a lot and it was worth it.

While Barcelona’s comeback victory might have shocked soccer fans, there’s one man who knew the team was capable of this result all along. We improved and had a chance for 3-2. We are going to speak with him about the changes that will be needed during the offseason. Barcelona are capable of doing that. They completed just four passes between the 85th minute and full-time.